²⁸ Peres: sinun valtakuntasi on pirstottu ja annettu meedialaisille ja persialaisille."

³⁹ Mutta sinun jälkeesi nousee toinen valtakunta, joka on halvempi kuin sinun; ja sitten kolmas valtakunta, joka on vaskea ja joka hallitsee kaikkea maata.

² Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.

³ Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.

⁴ They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.